THE MORXTXG OKEGOXIAX. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1903.
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"Bsm TO DITEUICESfl." .
What men call campaign expenses
appear to be necessary; and hence
campaign contributions ara solicited
and welcomed by all parties. Mr.
Bryan's committee rejoices In the con
tribution of some J0. 000, or there
about, secured through the appeal of
newspapers that support him. The
nonpartisan Bryan newspaper of
Portland Is in this business, with the
rest.
Whether an account of the contri
butions should be made public before
or after election is a matter of some
debate, but not an Important mat
ter. Taft says that publication of the
names of contributors before election
would be a disclosure of party prefer
ence which many men whether the
sums given, be large or small would
not want to make, and moreover that
candidates would be subject to the
unjust suspicion that they were under
the control or Influence of those mak
ing the contributions. These objec
tions belong to the same line as the
argument for secret ballot. Publica
tion after election, as Taft says, will
be an effective guard against favorit
ism by officials to contributors to the
fund.
However, it isn't important. What
is surprising Is that any man profess
ing the purity of Bryan's principles
should want a campaign fund. What
for? The newspapers furnish, without
other charge than their subscription
price, the dally campaign matter of
all parties. What Is one party or an
other to do. legitimately, with big
sums of money?
But Bryan breaks here into one of
his petulant moods, and says that
Taft's statement on this subject Is
"an Insult to the intelligence of the
voters." Coming from such source
this Is worth notice.
What Is Brian's entire political
career, what has It been, but an In
sult to the Intelligence of the voters?
This is the reason why the voters
have -always turned him down. What
so great Insult to the Intelligence of
the voters ever was offered as the
attempt to persuade them that they
could profit by debasement of money,
or government ownership of the rail
road.", or the loose, half-socialistic
Ideas that run through the whole of
Bryan's political schemes?
The platitudinous pretender of the
Platte has been Insulting the Intelli
gence of the voters these many years.
In most things he talks about he Is
merely a charlatan or mountebank,
and he never can be anything else
even If he should become President of
the United States. It always has been
recognized as a mistake to suppose
that a mere spouter was a great man.
WASHINGTON'S FIRST rRlMAKY.
Scores of defeated candidates all
ever the State of Washington who
spent from a few hundreds to many
thousands of dollars In an effort to
win office are now In a position to
offer Indisputable evidence that the
poor man has no show to secure office
under the direct primary law. The
result of the first primary election in
Washington not only demonstrated
that In nearly every case the man
won who spent the most money, but
Jt also proved quite conclusively that
In some cases the winners lackod
many of the qualifications for the
office that were possessed by the
losers. The Washington direct pri
mary law contains no such provision
as the sacred Statement No. 1, under
which Democrats ride into office In
Oregon by the aid of Republican
votes, but as a stand-off for that pro
vision. It has the second choice vote,
which. In the contest Just closed, has
proven a perfect success In landing
In nomination a number of candidates
who on a straight first choice vote of
the people would not have got within
shouting distance of success. '
The prestige of the office, as under
the old regime, proved to be an lm--porta
nt factor where candidates were
up for re-election, but. In case of the
Lieutenant-Governor, even this was
insufficient to offset the free ex
penditure of money by the success
ful candidate. Mr. Hay won, but Is
not yet elected, and must necessarily
spend considerable more money be
fore he Is elected; but his certified
expense account for the primaries Is
already In excess of the amount of
salary that he will receive for the
four years' term. It stands to reason
that no poor man, regardless of his
personality or qualification for the
office, can enter any contest that must
be fought out on such expensive lines.
There ara very few men who would
care to serve the state for four years
with no remuneration, or In fact to
pay for the privilege. In the case of
the Attorney-General. Easterly: the
candidate who received the greatest
number of first choice votes and a
man to whom the State of Washing
ton owes a debt of gratitude for his
tax reform measures, was defeated by
a man who was never seriously con
sidered as a winner, but who floated
In with ease on the "second choice
wave." Many a poor man not only
spent all of his savings, but embar
rassed his friends in an unsuccessful
attempt to secure office under tlra
new law which was fondly expected
to place office strictly within the
reach of those who had more merit
than money.
The British steamship Mag.lala
crossed Into the Columbia River Sep
tember II and arrived at Portland
epumbr 11. At this port she load
ed S720 tons of wheat, which,' with
1600 tons of bunker coal, gave her a
draft of more than twenty-five feet.
The steamer finished loading Septem
ber 30 and left down the river a day
later, crossing out to sea yesterday
afternoon, after a stay in the river of
but ten days. The showing is a re
markably good one for the port, and
the exporters who gave the vessel
such quick dispatch and the pilots
who hustled her through from Port
land to the sea are entitled to great
credit for the achievement. With
vessels of twenty-five feet draft going
through from Portland to the sea
I without detention, at a period of the
lowest 'water of the season, the port
of Portland is making an exceptional
ly fine showing.
PEOPLE "OCT OF A JOB."
"If the policy of the Republican
party has been so good for the coun
try why ara so many people out of
a Job?" The Inquiry is made by a
Bryan paper.
The policy of a party may be good
for a country, and yet every inhabi
tant may not have employment, or
the employment he wants, or the
wages he demands. ' In a new coun
try like ours if one Is "out of a Job"
It Is usually his own fault. He Is
unwilling or Inefficient; he work!
only In a fitful way, quits and leaves
his employers at a critical time, loafs
and spends his money, then can't at
once find employment again, and
would not stay with It if he could find
it. But perhaps he thinks that If
Bryan should ba elected he will have
an easy Ufa and good times. Many
tell him so.
The Bryan argument now, as In
former years. Is addressed mainly to
this class of persons. If they con
stitute a sufficiently large proportion
of the voters Bryan will be elected.
But do they? It always has been
the assumption of the Bryan cam
paign managers that they do. Here
tofore, however. It has not been so.
The steady and purposeful workers
have not voted for Bryan.
Any pinch or stringency In money,
like that which occurred a year ago,
Is sure to affect these classes of irreg
ular and indifferent workers. At such
times their services are not wanted,
and their demands will not be com
plied with. When they have not
made themselves useful to the em
ployer, or rather have studied how
not to ba useful to him. the employer,
who can wait, lets them go. Then
they are told that the policy of a po
litical party la at fault, and the rem
edy is, "vote for Bryan."
But the financial reverse of last
year was confined chiefly to specula
tors In Eastern cities, and little affect
ed the general workers of the coun
try, except such as were employed
In irregular Jobs financed on credit
by large exploiters. The greater pro
portion of the workers are those en
gaged in agricultural and correlated
pursuits; and these were scarcely af
fected at all. The farmers of the
country have been getting and now
are getting almost exceptionally good
prices for their products. "The policy
of the party In power" does not ap
pear to have hurt, them. In most of
the cities the industries are in full
activity. Here In Portland there Is
much more work In progress than at
any former time. But there always
will be people "out of a Job." Mostly,
however, they are of those who lack
the purpose of steady work and fore
sight. The "policy" of no political
party will do such any good.
LLOYD'S TXPARDOXABLE 6H.
The great profits in the fire Insur
ance business have proved so attrac
tive that some of the foreign com
panies operating in the United States
are accused of the unpardonable sin
of cutting rates. The chief offender
Is no "tuppenny" affair, for it is no
less important a concern than the
mighty Lloyd's, an institution found
ed so long ago and so firmly in
trenched throughout the world that
its integrity and responsibility are
never questioned. The alarm has
been sounded by the Insurance Index,
of London, which charges the great
marine Insurance company with de
veloping into a gambling institution.
The remarks of the Index have been
widely reprinted in this country so
widely. In fact, that the excessive
publicity smacks of a prearranged
plan. "Lloyd's underwriters," says
the Index, "through their questiona-,
bly careful representatives, have en
tered upon a deliberate rate-cutting
campaign, making reckless bids for
business on the basis of 20 or even 40
per cent reduction of rates."
The Index argues that Lloyd's un
derwriters are not "Justified In med
dling with fire Insurance business at
all." and that, even If it were -proper
for them to do so, they have no right
to be cutting rates below those of the
"regularly constituted United States
branches." It is grudgingly admitted
that Lloyd's paid all of their losses at
the San Francisco, Baltimore and Ot
tawa conflagrations, the greatest in
modern history, but no mention Is
made of the fact that a great many
other companies which have not been
accused of cutting rates, even a frac
tion or 20 to 40 per cent "welched"
on their San Francisco losses, al
though they had collected millions in
premiums from the stricken city.
Considerable stress is laid on the al
leged gambling phase of Lloyd's un
derwriting so far as fire insurance Is
concerned, although complimentary
mention is made of the legitimacy of
the marine underwriting.
"Gambling" Is a word on which
many changes are rung, and It is dif
ficult to understand why an under
writing transaction which is regarded
as strictly legitimate at a certain fig
ure becomes a gamble when the rates
are reduced from 20 to 40 rer cent.
The element of gambling and the
principle involved are the same, re
gardless of the rate. The companies
which mulct property-owners for
such havy premium rates In effect
wager the amount of the policy
against the amount of the premium
that the house will not burn down.
Lloyd's does the same, though from
the complaint made It seems clear
that they, were not taking such
heavy odds In their own favor as
other companies have been Insisting
on. What constitutes a reasonable
and a safe rate of fire Insurance Is
easily arrived at by simple mathe
matical calculations made In connec-.-.r,
wh knowledge of the exposure
J of the property involved.
Llovds have for more than a cen
tury enjoyed a world-wide reputation
as shrewd calculators of the risk In
volved In shipping, and they have ap
parently applied the same common-
sense rules to their fire Insurance
business. Perhaps, if some of their
competitors were Inclined to give the
property-owners more favorable odds
In the betting, there would be less op
portunity for Lloyd's to take away
their business at reasonable rates.
A celebrated American pugilist, in
refusing to meet another lesser light
In the staked arena, once said "Go
and get a reputation before challeng
ing me." To most of the companies
operating on either side of the ocean
Lloyd's could aptly apply the same
words.
THE ULTIMATE OBJECT.
The records show that If a bank
wrecker wants to escape the discom
forts of his situation, he must stay at
home, attend church and put up a big
bluff of Injured innocence. In that
way he can escape trial; or. If brought
to book, convicted and sentenced in
accordance with his crime, he can still
enjoy his liberty and court the possi
bility of ultimate exoneration. If he
yields to sudden panic and decamps,
he is pretty certain to be pursued,
brought back and punished as the law
directs.
We need not, leave our own city to
find examples of the success of the
first method of procedure, nor go far
for an example of the latter. It will
be remembered by those who followed
the financial mishaps of 1907 that one
William Walker, of the New Britain,
Conn.,- Savings Bank stole something
like7 half a million dollars from that
Institution. Just prior to the discov
ery of his defalcation he disappeared,
and after a time detectives were set
upon his trail. After sixteen months
of wretched liberty, spent In eluding
pursuers and enduring the hardships
of a Mexican miner. Walker was cap
tured, taken home In Irons, tried, con
victed and sent to prison for a lonjj
term of years. ... ,
Photography, the telegraph, the
Bertillon method, Pinkerton's system
and the subtle forces set to work by
the American Bankers' Association
are able to make the life of the most
artful fugitive from Justice anything
but secure. The money, time and ef
fort expended In capturing a bank
swindler or dishonest express messen
ger are not measured entirely by the
sum stolen. It cost $200,000 to catch
William Walker. The ultimate object
or principle In pushing the pursuit
and capture of the bank thief at great
expense Is to make the budding scoun
drel who aspires to become rich by
dishonorable methods turn to some
deal more sure and safe than the loot
of a savings bank.
TAFT AND I.ABOB. -
As a campaigner Mr. Taft improves
with practice. In some respects his
speech at Omaha on the first of the
month was the best he has made. Not
that it was more logical or judicious
than many others, or that It pre
sented a more imposing array of fact
and argument; it was better because
It was mora passionate. Campaign
speeches are addressed to multitudes
from the nature of the case, and
multitudes are not so much persuaded
by strict logic as they are by an ap
peal to their emotions. It may be that
the unjust accusations which have
been made against Mr. Taft in refer
ence to his feeling toward laboring
men "may have done some good after
all in arousing him to a more fiery
species of oratory than he had
reached before. The Judicial calm of
the courtroom and the statesman's
office Is not best suited to the stump.
Mr. Taft's friends who were listen
ing must therefore have thrilled with
satisfaction when he forsook the
dignified ' traditions of the bench and
called the person a liar who had said
that he (Taft) thought a dollar a
day enough pay for any laboring
man. The lie was a singularly fool
ish one because every reader of "the
newspapers knows that Mr. Taft has
stood for high wages and hygienic
conditions on the Isthmus and in the
Philippines. But falsehoods flourish
sometimes even when they are fool
ish, and it is well to have Mr. Taft's
explicit denial of this one, since much
depends in this Presidential election
upon the vote of labor.
Strenuous efforts have been made
to divert the labor vote from the Re
publican party and turn it to Mr.
Bryan. Mr. Taft's record as a Federal
Judge has been depended upon to
make him enemies among working
men. He Is denounced as "the father
of the Injunction." He Is railed at
because he truthfully declared that
he knew of no adequate remedy for
the panics which throw labor out of
employment. It is sedulously at
tempted to cast upon him the odium
of being a "corporation Judge."
These efforts to prejudice the labor
vote against Mr. Taft are utterly un
fair. They are without any basis of
fact. Still Presidential campaigns are
not supposed to be fair as a rule, and
Mr. Taft has been wise to take up
the matter and deal with it candidly
In his speeches at Omaha and else
where. Last week Mr. Taft reviewed be
fore an audience all the cases in
which . ha had Issued Injunctions
against organized labor when he was
a Judge, and explained exactly why
he did what he did. Not one of them
forbade workmen to strike or per
suade others to strike. Indeed, Judge
Taft explicitly held that the right to
strike is inviolate and he recalls an
Instance where an Injunction by a
New Tork Judge forbidding a strike
was withdrawn when his own decision
permitting it In a previous case was
cited. All the labor injunctions of
which he was the author were di
rected against boycotts. For these
he declares he has no apology to
make. He Issued them because the
law required it, and he thinks no
apology is necessary for doing his
duty. Probably most American citi
rens will think as he does about it.
To show that injunctions are used to
control capital as well as labor Mr.
Taft cites what he did in the case of
a combination of Iron pipe manufac
turers who sought to monopolize the
trade In eleven states. He enjoined
the combination and broke it up. This
case Is conveniently forgotten by those
who rail at.hlm for enjoining boy
cotts. In reciting the friendly acts which
he has done for labor, Mr. Taft under
states the facts. For example, he says
nothing about the Xarramore case,
of which The Oregonian gave an ac
count the other day. In this decision
he held that if an employer Illegally
neglected to protect dangerous ma
chinery and a workman was injured
by it, the employer could not escape
damages by claiming 'that the work
man had made an Implied contract to
assume the risk. This is one of the
most advanced decisions on the side
of humanity and justice ever made.
It was so far ahead of the 'general
opinion of the Judiciary when It was
written that some Judges have not
caught up with it yet. Mr. Taft's
record shows that he has been uni
formly a friend to labor both on the
bench and everywhere else. There is
great force In his remark that the
facts are persistently Ignored and
that he has to bear the blame for the
acts of other men. It has become
the fashion to attribute every un
righteous injunction ever Issued to
Taft, although many of them are
squarely contrary to his views.
Thus the insidious "temporary in
junction," which forbids certain acts
until after a hearing and then puts
off the hearing for three or four
months, has justly excited Indignation,
and this Indignation is frequently di
rected against - Mr. Taft, though he
never in all his career issued such an
order. In his Omaha speech he called
that species of Injunction "an out
rage," which ought to be definite
enough to settle the doubts of any
man about his position. Nobody who
wishes to be fair can hold It against
Mr. Taft that he does not say right is
wrong and wrong right merely to
please his hearers. Upright citizens
respect one who stands by his opin
ions even If they do not agree with
him. Hence. It can hardly be supposed
that he will lose votes by stating his
position on the question of Injunctions
exactly as it Is. If the Democratic
programme were carried out, he says
it would effectively break down the
power of the courts to enforce their
orders. Who wants the power of the
courts destroyed? Who wants to see
the judiciary paralyzed? Mr. Taft
desires to see every Injustice which
arises from injunctions remedied, but
he is not willing to have court orders
made dependent upon the verdicts of
Juries. Perhaps, before the campaign
is over, the majority of American
workingmen will agree with him.
It is announced that the Harrlman
lines will place steel passenger cars
in service on all of their lines, an
order for 220 of the new type having
been placed with the Pullman com
pany. A steel car will not prevent
accidents when a careless engineer
runs past danger signals and collides
with another train, but in the ensu
ing smash the steel car will undoubt
edly be the means of saving many
lives which, with the wooden cars
now In use, are either crushed out
of existence or consumed with Are
that nearly always accompanies a bad
trainwreck. Safety appliances have
worked wonders on many of our rail
roads, but, so long as there is so
much dependent on the Individual,
and the individual Is subject to the
occasional fatal lapse, there will be
disasters In which a steel car will be
the means of preventing loss of life.
Alaska, which a few years ago as
tonished the world with the magni
tude of its gold discoveries, no longer
leads the list of American gold-producing
states and territories. It may
be surprising to many thousands who
have rushed into the dangers of the
Far North and suffered all of the dis
comforts and expense of an Alaskan
trip to learn that civilized, easily ac
cessible Colorado last year produced
20,897,000 in gold, compared with
$18,489,400 produced in Alaska. Even
California, a state in which gold min
ing can be followed with at least some
of "the comforts of a home," was
very close to Alaska with an output
of 116,858,500. These official figures,
which have just been issued by the
Government, show that it is not yet
necessary to go beyond the confines
of the United States in order to find
gold In paying quantities.
There seems to be a hitch some
where in the attempt to compel state
officers to pay back compensation re
ceived In violation of the constitu
tion. The suit against ex-Secretary
of State Dunbar, a Republican, was
prosecuted with vigor, but for some
reason no suit has been brought
against Chamberlain, a Democrat. Is
there party politics back of this, Mr.
McMahan ?
If Mr. Bryan did not know the
character and business affiliations of
the man whom he chose as treasurer
of his campaign, is he a safe person
to be trusted with the duty of forming
Cabinets, appointing Judges, District
Attorneys and filling all the other ap
pointive offices of the Government?
District Attorney Cameron will en
force the Sunday law "because It Is
the law." Mayor Lane will drive out
the women from the tenderloin "be
cause it is the law." The law is a
great thing. We are a righteous peo
ple. We never have any buncombe
about law enforcement..
If the officers who are charged
with the duty of cleaning out the
North End will declare the intention
to take tha-names of all men who
might be available as witnesses, the
task of putting an end to an unlawful
occupation would be made easy.
A meeting of an Irrigation cong
ress without an attack on Glfford
Plnchot would resemble an emascu
lated production of "Hamlet." And
yet, on second thought, it may be
Mr. Plnchot understands the art of
advertising as well as forestry.
At one moment our Democratic
friends declare that by his interfer
ence President 'Roosevelt has helped
Bryan and at the next moment they
denounce him as a dictator. But if
he is helping Bryan, why be so indig
nant over his activity?
Democrats must go clear back to
Jefferson and Jackson for their politi
cal Ideals. Republicans can go back
and point with pride if they wish, but
need not go back of the present ad
ministration The "Health Department" of the
city, including the public schools, is
growing rapidly into a big machine.
Its main function evidently is to make
sinecures and salaries.
Apparently the present campaign
will be noted in history for the po
litical leaders it has unmade.
"Dick" asked the Great Candidate
of the editor of the Commoner, "what
does Haskell rhyme with?"
Why not take Colonel Stewart to
Africa next year and lose him?
BRYAN'S STAND OX "LAW HOXESTT"
Some Juat Observations oa This Speelea
of Error.
Kansas City Star, Ind.
The President, In his answer to Mr.
Bryan, makes the Important distinction
that the Democratic candidate takes his
stand on "law honesty" in the case of
Governor Haskell, and he reminds Mr.
Bryan that respect for mere "law hon
esty" has "been the bane of this people
in endeavoring to get equity and fair
dealing as they should obtain among
high-minded men from great business
corporations and from individuals."
Tou are on dangerous ground, Mr.
Bryan. To stand by a man until the I
courts shall prove him guilty may be to
stand by a man whose guilt Is morally
certain, and yet wnose conviction Is le
gally Impossible.
For instance, why should Mr, Haskell
have been asked to resign from his posi
tion on the National Committee? Or, If
he was not asked, why should his vol
untary resignation have been accepted?
The answer Is simply this, that public
sentiment within the party, the moral
convictions of the masses of honest Dem
ocrats, would have resented his reten
tion. It Is wholly improbable that any court
will ever prove Senator Foraker guilty of
the charges brought against him. Weuld
Mr. Bryan stand by Foraker, if he were
In Mr. Taft's place, until the courts-
should be heard from? Presumably ha
would. He has never repudiated Senator
Bailey. Ha stands by Governor HaskolL.
There are many rascals clever enough
to stay within the bounds of "law hon
esty" while defiantly violating the rules
of moral law and incurring public con
tempt for their rascality. Mr. Bryan oan
hardly afford to fall short qf the average
publio standard of morality in his display
of loyalty to a favorite who happens to
be under heavy fire.
MR. BRYAN'S ACROBATIC CAMPAIGN
In the Weat He la Mr. Roosevelt's Heir,
and In the Eaat He'a HIa Own.
New York Evening Post, Ind.
In the West, Mr. Bryan was at pains
to prove that he was Mr. Roosevelt's
sole legitimate political heir. In the
East, he Is now devoting himself to ar
gument that the inheritance is not
worth having.
Whether or not this acrobatic reas
oning results from the fact that the
Roosevelt craze is more violent In the
West than In the East, or from the
mere fact that Mr. Roosevelt has de
clared that Bryan's election would be
a calamity, It Is none the less bewild
ering. "What has the President done?"
was the note to which Mr. Bryan tuned
his Buffalo speech. Has he imprisoned
a "trust magnate?" Has he "disturbed
the steel trust?" Has he "done any
thing to punish the Standard Oil?" "Can
he, in short, escape his own record?"
Mr. Bryan apparently foresees the
answer and the inference. If he is sent
to the White House, "trust magnates"
will languish In chains, no trusts as
yet "undisturbed" will be allowed to
rest in fancied security, and no Circuit
Courts will reverse his $29,000,000 fines.
How will he do this, he was somewhat
pertinently asked, with a necessarily
hostile Senate? First, by that simple
and easy "plan" of prohibiting corport
ations from controllng more .than 50
per cent of the country's output; sec
ond, by showing triumphantly, to the
Reubllcan Senate, that " 'Shall the peo
ple rule?' is declared by our platform
to be the overshadowing Issue in this
campaign." No Senate would dare to
defeat a measure with such an argu
ment attached to it.
This strikes us as mere buncombe
and the only really significant thing
about it is Bryan's plain declaration of
his own intended role as the arch agi
tator. We wonder what ex-Secretary
Olney will have to say of this declara
tion. For ourselves, we Imagine that
such parting of company with conserv
ative men of Mr. Olney's sort will con
tinue at an Increasing rate with the
progress of the canvass. It was not
ably so in each of Bryan's other cam
paigns; no one can have forgotten how
the mild and beneficent statesman of
August and September, 1900. became
the firebrand agitator of October. Per
haps this Is one disadvantage, politi
cally speaking, of the plan of the
Bryan campaigns. A candidate who
does all the talking, and who sets out
to ba all things to all men throughout
the country, is reasonably sure to end
by displaying himself exactly as he
Is.
HaakeM Haa "Plied" Himself.
Chicago Evening Post.
From Oklahpma, a state of whloh, by
virtue of votes and no other virtue,
Charles N. Haskell Is Governor, the
man who was treasurer of the Demo
cratic National Committee, sends forth
a threat against Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States. "I'll
have a new chapter dally on Theodore
the First, from now until election day,
showing him to be the greatest crook
that ever sat in the Presidential chair."
This Is the threat.
And the country will continue to love
the President more and more for the
enemies he has made and is making.
The Governor of Oklahoma has been
driven Into a dark retirement, but his
voice has not failed him, and he Insists
on making a noise in the darkness to
draw attention to his whereabouts. Ha
ought to be grateful for a chance to ba
forgotten.
Governor Haskell calls President
Roosevelt a crook. It la the last dirty
resort of the dishonest. Theodora
Roosevelt a crook! Mr. Haskell has
dona for himself mora certainly and
completely than any man could do for
him.
Just the Walter Who Waited.
Philippines Gossip.
A man who called himself George Ar
nold was before a Police Court Judge
on the charge of stealing a ride on a
train to Dagupan.
"Where were you?" asked Judge Low,
referring to his former place of abode.
"In Manila," was the reply. "I was
waiting."
"Waiting for whom?"
"Juat waiting."
"What were you waiting for?
"To get my money."
"Who from?"
"The man I was waiting for."
"What did he owe It to you forT'
"For waiting."
"How did you start in waiting?"
"By beginning to wait"
"What do you mean? Explain your
self." "
"I thought you knew I was waiting
In a restaurant."
"Oh!" gasped the Judge.
What a Yankee la.
PORTLAND. Oct. 2. (To the Editor.)
Will you please tell us what a real
Yankee Is, or what is the difference be
tween an American and a Yankee, If
any? TWO DISPUTANTS.
"Yankee" Is a very elastic nickname.
Three hundred years ago It was applied
to all white men by native Indians as the
niarnt thev could twist their tongues to
pronouncing the word "English," or Its
French equivalent, Angiais.
Nowadays, west of the Allegheny
Mountains, all residents of New England
are nicknamed Yankees. South of the
Ohio River, our brethren call all North
erners Yankees. In England and In other
British possessions, all inhabitants of the
United States are Yankees.
BRYAN AND HIS BEAR
New Tork Sun.
The gentleman who had the bear by
the tail and was afraid to let him go
was pleasantly occupied as compared
with Mr. Bryan during the last few days
In his relations with Haskell of Okla
homa. Evidently It was" a real love
match from the beginning. The airy
fairy Haskell and the flamboyant
Bryan, shepherds both. We can under
stand that Haskell, with his gift of
speech, his innumerable and gaudy
schemes, his loud talk and his formid
able, not to say resplendent front, was
nicely calculated to produce a favorable
Impression upon the equally windy and
pretentious Bryan. Easy to see that it
has been hard to unlock the loving grip
and send him adrift.
Haskell dawned on the Denver con
vention a thing of noise and truculence.
All his fruitless manipulations were be
hind him. He seemed a tower of
strength. Colonel Jack Abernathy caught
wolves with his hands, and doubtless ate
them, hair and all, thereby enthralling
the simple soul of Theodora Roosevelt.
Haskell chased predatory corporations,
despoiled them and left their bones to
whiten on the plain, whereby he came to
nestle In the midriff of the Peerless.
Wasn't It Haskel who fell upon Colonel
James Guffey tooth and nail, eviscerating
his claims to communion and dismissing
his paltry fragments to 'the four winds?
Wasn't it also Haskell who presided over
the perihelion of Bryan with that white
souled reformer, Roger Sullivan, of Chi
cago? It seams to us that In all those
preliminaries Haskell was the right hand,
the twin and most of the vocal cords of
the Nebraska Prophet, and did all things
to his satisfaction. And If he had been
at Borne time In his panoramic past a
brother or a henchman of the Octopus,
surely failure had erased the trail and
new pursuits and ecstasies had sealed
him to the Cause.
Years have dealt kindly with Mr. Bry
an In the matter of his bank account,
but they have not Increased his capacity
for holding a bear by the tall. He has
taken on a paunch, and by the same
token released a shining and an oily dome
where once the lovelocks sprouted freely.
Ho Is no longer fitted for violent athletics.
Tried by that standard, he is given to
redness behind the ears and a Jerky dia
phragm withal. And even if the ado
lescent ardors of 1896 were with him still
and he believed in himself with real en
thusiasm. Haskell would nevertheless
have been a weary and distressing drag.
VARIED VIEWS OX OREGON PAIRS
What Shonld Be Done About Salemf
Also About Portland T
Tha Dalles Optimist.
It la all nonsense attempting to main
tain a great Fair at Salem. That loca
tion was good in the early days, when
there were no people in the state
worth mentioning outside of the small
area west of the Cascades; but wa
have outgrown that day, and now the
large population east of the Cascades
Is practically shut oft from the Fair,
for It Is very inconvenient to get there
from this section of the country. As a
result, but few of those east of The
Dalles attend, and a very small number
make exhibits.
The Fair should ba moved to Port
land, and the sooner the Salem people
read the handwriting on the wall the
better it will be for them, for If they
do not do this there will ba a movement
made in the near future to remove the
capital, and then their citizens will
go into a losing fight. . If they will
gracefully let the Fair go where It be
longs, they may hold the capital In
definitely, but If they try to hold fast
to the Fair, they will lose much more
than that.
If the question comes to an Initiative
vote, as It soon will, Salem will be left
out In the cold, and no one to blame
but themselves.
Too Soon After State Fair.
Albany Democrat.
After It Is all over, the people of
Portland are indorsing the recent big
stock show and horse races; but during
the show they failed to attend properly.
Coming right after tjhe State Fair, it
was not an easy thing to get people
there from the rest of the state.
No Reaaon for Removal.
Newberg Graphic
The lack of Interest on the part of
the Portland people in the big Btock
ehow held In that city last week, as
shown by the meager attendance, did
not furnish much ammuifltlon for the
hinted proposal to try to get the State
Fair removed from Salem to Portland.
Is This Really the Cause t
Eugene Register.
Portland is very much exercised over
light attendance at the recent stock
show in that city. The cause Is not
far to seek. It followed too close upon
the heels of the State Fair.
Expenses of the Board of Health.
PORTLAND, Oct. 2. (To the Editor.)
After reading the editorial in last
Tuesday's Oregonian relating to the ad
dition of two physicians and a nurse to
the Health Department of this city, I
ask that you publish a list of the em
ployes of the Board of Health, together
with the salary of each. I understand
that we have a County Physician, and
a State Board of Health, which has a
bacteriologist, who also is bacteriolo
gist for the City Board of Health and
draws a salary from both.
For the City Board of Health, we
have these officials, at these monthly
salaries: Health Officer, $250; Assist
ant Health Officer, $125; City Physi
cian, $125; Fumlgator, $100; Bacteriolo
gist, $75; Market Inspector, $80; School
Inspectors (two) $100 each, $200; and
School Nurse, $75; making a total of
$1030 per month.
Besides this, there is the expense of
an office clerk, an ambulance and the
keep of a horse and buggy, also $300 a
year carfare for the Health Officer.
E. F. WILLIAMS.
Gets $1000 Interest on $50 Principal.
New York Herald.
The happiest man In New York is
Adam Brede, chef In a lunchroom.
Over 20 years ago Brede deposited $50
In the Seamen's Bank for Savings.
With a friend he attended a festival
that night, and when he left the hall
he found that both his friend and his
bankbook had disappeared. The other
night he encountered his friend, who
greeted him effusively, and said:
"Here is that bankbook, Adam. It
has hurt, my conscience for 20 years,
but it was the means of saving my
life. After leaving New York I went to
Albany, N. Y. From there I drifted
out to San Francisco, where I started
a fruit business. I prospered, and at
the end of 18 years was worth about
$50,000. I arrived here last Sunday and
have been looking for you ever since."
He then handed over the bankbook
and $1000 for the Interest
Cow Falls 70 Feet to Coal Mine.
Pittsburg Despatch.
A cow owned by Reuben Lord, of
Plymouth, Pa, fell 70 feet from a field
into a hard-coal mine, due to a cave-In,
and badly frightened two miners on
their way to work In the shaft. M '
BRYAN AND HIS HASKELL
New York American.
Mr. Bryan Is composing his countenance
to that amus hypocrisy which ever man
tles there on what occasions he appe-s
in his great specialty, "Pecksniff in Poll
tics." . . . The evil Mr. K-askell
thrown out. Mr. Bryan sporting his best
Pecksniff manner softly takes the cen
ter of the stage, and with hands palms
outward as denoting nothing to conceal,
exclaims: "To think I shoud have been
thus deceived!"
Lest emotional ones in the audience be
carried off their feet of sentiment by the
acting of this truly wonderful arttet. cer
tain facts of the hard and fast variety
should be heedfully borne In mind. Mr.
Haskell for years has been no secret to
Mr. Bryan. The latter astute gentleman,
with eyes to see and ears to hear any
thing and everything that should have
a slightest bearing upon his own for
tunes, was all through Oklahoma in tha
Haskell gubernatorial campaign. He was
aiding Mr. Haskell, whom ho knew anil
loved like a brother. Ho beard every
charge made against that industrious
friend of Standard Oil.
The devious Mr. Haskell, full of an Ok
lahoman energy, had made himself a
greatly talked-of man. Sentimental, he
had written verses. , Imaginative, he was
for exalting alfalfa as the flowery emble.n
of Oklahoma, even as Is the sunflower of
Kansas, the briar bush of bonnie. Sco'
land. Mr. Haskell was the exponent. If
not the author of the "Oklahoma Idea,"
and It was from his hands Mr. Bryan ac
cepted It for the Democratic party. Also,
Mr. Haskell had been the bug under the
chip In framing the Oklahoma constitu
tion. By thesa signs Mr. Bryan knew him for
a kindred spirit, and had him home o
Lincoln to aid In drafting the Denver
platform. Ho knew Mr. Haskell is
mothers know their children before
ever he drew him to his bosom of politics.
Is Mr. Bryan one to ask an unknown man
to be his treasurer? Is he of the frank
and foolish sort that invites a stranger
to assist in building a platform? Mr.
Bryan tells Mr. Roosevelt that he him
self made Mr. Haskell his chairman on
resolutions and afterward asked him to
collect the campaign cash.
Mr. Russell, the editor of the Ardmoro
(Okla.) Democrat, tells In print how he
himself notified Mr. Bryan of the crooked
past of Mr. Haskell, and also what Mr.
Bryan did on that notified occasion.
. . . "At that time (a year ago) I per
sonally presented to you ten typewritten
pages of charges against Mr. Haskell
covering his operations In Ohio, New
York, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.
You did me the courtesy of tearing them
up and throwing them out of the train
window without reading them."
Just as the pitcher that goes often tJ
the well Is broken, so Is that Pecksniff
who goes too often before his audience
driven with final hisses from the stage.
VOTING MACHINES LOSING GROUND
Allegation That They Deatroy Secrecy.
Back to tbe Hnllot.
Philadelphia Press, Rep.
Pennsylvania passed a constitutional
amendment to enable the people to use
voting machines if the Legislature au
thorized them. Though the chief ob
stacle to their adoption In this state
was thus removed nothing further has
been done to bring the voting machine
into use.
Some New York and New Jersey
towns accepted them and though the
machines found admirers and warm
advocates the movement for their adop
tion seems for tho present to have lost
its force. .The last Legislature of New
Jersey authorized the cities and towns
using machines to vote on the question
of retaining them, and in nearly every
Instance the vote has been overwhelm
ingly in favor of discarding them, and
as a result about $500,000 of voting
machines purchased for the use of New
Jersey voters bave been put out of
service. After giving the machines a
test, the people in these towns decide
to go back to the old method of voting
by ballot.
This looks like a backward step, "but
the machine as presented to voters has
some serious disadvantages. Secrecy
In voting Is destroyed in a measure by
it, as the straight voter pulls one lever
and gets through quickly, while he
who cuts his ticket must remain much
longer and pull a separate lever for
each candidate voted for. The voter,
too, must take on trust that the ma
chine does what it is expected to do,
as ha cannot sea the result of the ma
chine's action and know with certainty
that his vote is cast as he intended.
Altogether, voters as a class do not
take very kindly to machine voting.
They prefer a ballot which they can
read, and mark and see dropped In the
box. Perhaps, however, since the vot
ing machine, like the flying machine.
Is still In its infancy, the present ob
jections to It will disappear as it Is t
still further perfected.
HASKELL AND MR. BRYAN.
Pertinent Queaiiona, bnt So Far There
Is No Anawer.
Chicago Tribune.
The Tribune asks Mr. Bryan to answer
the following questions:
1. Is It true that C. N. Haskell was ap
pointed chairman of the committee on
resolutions at Denver and treasurer of the
Democratic National Committee with your
"approval and Indorsement?"
2. Is It true that C. N. Haskell has de
nied that he was a member of the Citi
zens' Alliance of Muskogee, Okla., and
that his name appears first on the list of
those who signed the agreement through
which the organization of that alliance
was brought about?
8. Do you, while asking union men for
their votes, on the ground that at your
and your party's hands their Interests will
bo furthered more actively than at those
of Mr. Taft and the Republican party.
Justify your selection of Mr. Haskell, who,
by the evidence so far uncovered, was a
member of the Citizens' Alliance formed
to destroy unions in Muskogee?
4. Is it true that C. N. Haskell, as a
railroad promoter In Ohio, was interested
In "peculiar" methods of railroad finance?
6. Ib It true, or can you prove It untrue,
that Mr. Haskell when in Ohio was inter
ested, directly or Indirectly, in the affairs
of the Standard Oil Company?
. Is It true that Mr. Haskell has been
unduly friendly to the. Standard Oil Com
pany, or the companies which belong to
it In Oklahoma?
7. Is it true, as alleged by Editor Rus
sell, of Ardmore, Okla., that you refused
to read the charges presented by him to
you on your visit to Oklahoma last Fall,
which charges filled 10 typewritten pages
and covered "his deals in Onto. New Yorfc
Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma"?
8. Inasmuch as Mr. Haskell, with your
consent and that of the managers of the
Democratic campaign, has resigned as
treasurer of the Democratic National
Committee and, by implication at least,
has confessed that he Is guilty of the
charges preferred against him, do you
think that you aro competent to select
men for positions of responsibility in the
National Government?
Broken Finger Follows Seven-Cp.
Indianapolis News.
John W. Ott, of Lawrenceburg, Ind.,
becoming excited In a game of seven
up by catching his partner's Jack,
struck the table so bard that he broke
the middle finger on his right hand,
from which injury blood-poisoning has
resulted, and his life Is in danger.
Paraon Leavea Wedding to Fight Fire.
Baltimore News.
Rev. C. L. Kitter, of Hanover. F,
leaving a couple In his parlor waiting
to be married, exchanged his clerical
garments for an old suit and rushed
out to fight a fire.